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Love is a Racket (First National) shows Douglas Fairbanks Jr., a likable young journalist, attempting to make friends with a young actress (Frances Dee). When, during a penthouse entertainment, a racketeer insults the actress, her aunt immediately kills him. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. shows how quick-witted he is by throwing the racketeer's corpse off the roof. When police find it on the sidewalk, they do not guess about the murder. He is rewarded not by the actress's devotion but by a mean trick such as real colyumists have given the public to understand is particularly likely...
...hold their third annual meeting at the Smithsonian Institution. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, president of the body, dismissed the information with: ''It will be best for everyone interested to await scientific confirmation." His associates proceeded to discuss among other things: The Nose of the American Negro (Dr. George Dee Williams, St. Louis;; The Clavicle of the American Negro (Dr. Robert James Terry, St. Louis); Body Proportions of Adult Catarrhine Primates (Dr. Adolph Hans Schnltz, Baltimore); Dental Caries in Living Alaskan Eskimo (Henry B. Collins Jr., Washington); Notes on Cheyenne Anthropometry (Dr. Truman Michelson, son of the late great Albert...
...case. Last January it was the Star's Reporter Harry Thompson Brundidge who brought about the capture of the kidnapers of 13-year-old Adolphus Busch Orthwein (TIME, Jan. 12). Last May it was the Post-Dispatch's ace, John T. Rogers, who returned the kidnaped Dr. Isaac Dee Kelley to his home (TIME, May 11). Last week it was Reporter Rogers again who, on the strength of his success in the Kelley case, was given an inside track on the kidnap case of Alexander Berg, well-to-do fur dealer. Four days, six hours after the furrier's abduction...
...dee de dee (Tee-die dee de dee...
...been kidnapped by the gang formerly headed by Fred ("Killer") Burke of St. Louis, where the kidnapping business is so highly developed that socialites leave their expensive cars in their garages and go to parties in inconspicuous small cars. Kidnapped this year in St. Louis were strapping Dr. Isaac Dee Kelley Jr. (TIME, May 11) and Adolphus Busch Orthwein. 13, grandson of President August A. Busch of Anheuser-Busch. Inc. (TIME, Jan. 12). Kidnapped near Chicago four months ago was a gambler named James Hackett, whose seizure Investigator Roche blamed on the Burke gang. Hackett was freed...